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Secondary skills
Air Magic
Archery
Armorer
Artillery
Ballistics
Diplomacy
Eagle Eye
Earth Magic
Estates
Fire Magic
First Aid
Intelligence
Interference
Leadership
Learning
Logistics
Luck
Mysticism
Navigation
Necromancy
Offense
Pathfinding
Resistance
Scholar
Scouting
Sorcery
Tactics
Water Magic
Wisdom

Scouting
	Basic Scouting: allows your hero to see 1 square further into the shroud.
	Advanced Scouting: allows your hero to see 2 square further into the shroud. (3 squares in Horn of the Abyss)
	Expert Scouting: allows your hero to see 3 square further into the shroud. (5 squares in Horn of the Abyss)

Scouting is a secondary skill that increases hero's scouting radius by one at basic level, by two at advanced level and by three at expert level.

Heroes with Scouting as a starting skill:

Aeris the Druid
Broghild the Beastmaster
Calh the Demoniac
Deemer the Warlock (Advanced Scouting) (Basic Scouting in HotA )
Fiona the Demoniac (Advanced Scouting)
Lorelei the Overlord
Piquedram the Alchemist
Shiva the Barbarian
Tavin the Mercenary

Heroes with Scouting as a specialty and a starting skill:

Beatrice the Knight (Basic Scouting)
Miriam the Captain (Basic Scouting)
Wynona the Mercenary (Basic Scouting)

Related artifacts:

Speculum - increases the scouting radius by +1.
Spyglass - increases the scouting radius by +1.

Horn of the Abyss[edit | hide | hide all]

In Horn of the Abyss the skill effect was increased from +2 and +3 scouting radius for advanced and expert levels to +3 and +5 respectively.

Scouting specialty was introduced: it increases the scouting range by 1 every 6 levels.

Chance to get[edit | hide]

Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for Horn of the Abyss .
Banned skills change the probability.

Town	Class	Chance to learn
Castle	Knight	4
Castle	Cleric	3
Rampart	Ranger	7
Rampart	Druid	2 (lowest)
Tower	Alchemist	4
Tower	Wizard	2 (lowest)
Inferno	Demoniac	5
Inferno	Heretic	3
Necropolis	Death Knight	4
Necropolis	Necromancer	2 (lowest)
Dungeon	Overlord	5
Dungeon	Warlock	2 (lowest)
Stronghold	Barbarian	8 (highest)
Stronghold	Battle Mage	4
Fortress	Beastmaster	7
Fortress	Witch	2 (lowest)
Conflux	Planeswalker	6
Conflux	Elementalist	2 (lowest)
Cove	Captain	4
Cove	Navigator	2 (lowest)
Factory	Mercenary	5
Factory	Artificer	4

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In a multiplayer mode, Scouting is decent so as to discover the map faster. However, if playing against AI, there is a way to examine the uncovered lands, saving a slot for a more mighty secondary skill: save the progress and use a cheat which unveils the whole map, then return to your normal game, having remembered the most important things (i.e. location of various map objects, artifacts, enemy heroes, their force and proximity to your towns, etc.) Anyway, as the game is played, the map is often getting fully unveiled, or at least everything important for the mission is disclosed, sooner or later.

Scouting is a useful secondary skill early in the game. It enables hero to quickly reveal undiscovered lands, which may give the player an useful insight where to venture. However, during the end part of the map when the most important areas are already revealed, scouting becomes somewhat useless. For this reason, scouting is most useful for scout-type secondary heroes combined with traveling skills logistics, pathfinding and navigation. Scouting can, however, be useful to counter the effect's of Necropolis darkness shroud or the adventure map object Cover of Darkness.

Things that ruin Scouting

Skyship

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 {{Secondary skill
   | B_effect = allows your hero to see 1 square further into the shroud.
-  | A_effect = allows your hero to see 2 square further into the shroud.
+  | A_effect = allows your hero to see 2 square further into the shroud. (3 squares in {{hota}}){{-wh}}
-  | E_effect = allows your hero to see 3 square further into the shroud.
+  | E_effect = allows your hero to see 3 square further into the shroud. (5 squares in {{hota}}){{-wh}}
 }}
-'''Scouting''' is one of the [[Secondary Skills|secondary skills]]. It increases hero's [[Scouting Radius|scouting radius]] by one at basic level, by two at advanced level and by three at expert level. Scouting radius can also be increased by artifacts [[speculum]] and [[spyglass]].
+'''Scouting''' is a secondary skill that increases hero's [[scouting radius]] by one at basic level, by two at advanced level and by three at expert level.
-Scouting is a useful secondary skill early in the game. With it, a hero can quickly reveal undiscovered lands, which may give the player an useful edge when deciding where to venture. However, during the end part of the map when the most important areas are already revealed, scouting becomes somewhat useless. For this reason, scouting is most useful for scout-type secondary heroes combined with traveling skills  [[logistics]], [[pathfinding]] and [[navigation]].
+'''Heroes with Scouting as a starting skill:'''
+* {{H2|Aeris|Druid}}
+* {{H2|Broghild|Beastmaster}}
+* {{H2|Calh|Demoniac}}
+* {{H2|Deemer|Warlock}} (Advanced Scouting) (Basic Scouting in [[HotA]]{{-wh}})
+* {{H2|Fiona|Demoniac}} (Advanced Scouting)
+* {{H2|Lorelei|Overlord}}
+* {{H2|Piquedram|Alchemist}}
+* {{H2|Shiva|Barbarian}}
+* {{H2|Tavin|Mercenary}} {{withmapedhota}}
-==Heroes with Scouting as a starting skill==
+'''Heroes with {{PAGENAME}} as a specialty and a starting skill:'''
-The following heroes all start with Basic Scouting:
+* {{H2|Beatrice|Knight}}{{-wh}} (Basic Scouting)
-* [[Aeris]] the [[Druid]]
+* {{H2|Miriam|Captain}}{{-wh}} (Basic Scouting)
+* {{H2|Wynona|Mercenary}}{{-wh}} (Basic Scouting)
+'''Related artifacts:'''
+* {{an2|Speculum}} - increases the scouting radius by +1.
+* {{an2|Spyglass}} - increases the scouting radius by +1.
+== {{hota}} ==
+In {{hota}}{{-wh}} the skill effect was increased from +2 and +3 scouting radius for advanced and expert levels to +3 and +5 respectively.
+Scouting specialty was introduced: it increases the scouting range by 1 every 6 levels.
+== Chance to get ==
+{{Secondary skill chance explanation}}
+{{ZET SEC SKILL CHANCE TABLE| 4| 3| 7| 2 (lowest)| 4| 2 (lowest)| 5| 3| 4| 2 (lowest)| 5| 2 (lowest)| 8 (highest)| 4| 7| 2 (lowest)| 6| 2 (lowest)| 4| 2 (lowest)| 5| 4}}
+{{user commentary|
+In a multiplayer mode, Scouting is decent so as to discover the map faster. However, if playing against AI, there is a way to examine the uncovered lands, saving a slot for a more mighty secondary skill: save the progress and use a [[cheats|cheat]] which unveils the whole map, then return to your normal game, having remembered the most important things (i.e. location of various map objects, artifacts, enemy heroes, their force and proximity to your towns, etc.) Anyway, as the game is played, the map is often getting fully unveiled, or at least everything important for the mission is disclosed, sooner or later.
+Scouting is a useful secondary skill early in the game. It enables hero to quickly reveal undiscovered lands, which may give the player an useful insight where to venture. However, during the end part of the map when the most important areas are already revealed, scouting becomes somewhat useless. For this reason, scouting is most useful for scout-type secondary heroes combined with traveling skills  [[logistics]], [[pathfinding]] and [[navigation]]. Scouting can, however, be useful to counter the effect's of [[Necropolis]] darkness shroud or the adventure map object Cover of Darkness.
+=== Things that ruin Scouting ===
+* [[Skyship]]
+}}{{end of user commentary}}
+{{secondary skill 'see also'|top=* [[Scouting radius]]}}
 [[Category: Secondary skills]]
+__NOTOC__